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“What’s The Wildest Reason You’ve Ever Heard For Someone Calling Off Their Wedding?” (50 Answers)
The engagement ring is on the finger, the catering is already booked, the wedding cakes have been tasted, and even the guests have received their invitations. But something suddenly goes wrong and the wedding is no more. Interestingly, this happens quite often. OMG Hitched reports that 20% of all weddings get called off after the engagement. But what can be the reasons?
One netizen was wondering the same thing, perhaps, when they decided to ask: "What's the wildest reason you've ever heard for someone calling off their wedding?" Former wedding guests came through with the most absurd, hilarious, and even heartbreaking stories imaginable. Over 2,000 people shared their stories, and you can read the most memorable ones below!
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#1
Maybe more smart than crazy. But a friend called off her wedding a month before it was supposed to happen. They had dated for around 7 years or so. Everything was arranged and paid for, etc. She found out that her fiance was stealing money from her bank account and using it to gamble. She called her bank to investigate missing funds and they had pictures of him at the atm. She sold her dress on ebay and gave the engagement ring back to his best friend because it turns out the best friend was the one who had paid for it. About 3 years later she ends up marrying the best friend. I think she made a wise decision.
SnackbarKaat 1 year ago
Not as crazy but similar to the above story: my sister called off her wedding because her fiance had a secret gambling addition and spend all his and hers savings
Couragetcd 1 year ago
It's very possible that he wasn't a gambling addict for the majority of the time they were together. It doesn't take long to get hooked on that adrenaline rush/ hope for dopamine rush when you win. It takes an even shorter amount of time to throw your money away and start sliding into ruin once the addiction sinks in.
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#2
The groom was in a head on collision with a drunk driver. He spent weeks in a coma, when he came out of it he decided he didn’t want to spend the next several years becoming a neurosurgeon because life was too short. The bride bailed. He had to learn to walk and go through grueling PT. He went on to become an orthopedic surgeon instead. She tried coming back. He said nope. He’s now happily married to his childhood friend he’s known since kindergarten because she stuck by him and helped him recover.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
The bride was planning to miss out the “in sickness and in health,” and “for richer and poorer,” lines from her vows anyway.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Not that surprising really. My wife got long COVID. She slept for 16-20 hours a day, and left me to manage three children. I wasn't mad about it, she was sick and I was worried, but we got through it. It took a bit more than a year before she started to get better, but we got through it. Then I got sick, not COVID but a potentially fatal illness. I needed to have more than a dozen surgeries, the pain was constant, and triggered severe depression. She quickly walked right out of the marriage while I was going through the worst of it. Similar thing happened with a friend of mine. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and she left a month a later. Said it wasn't fair to ask her to watch him die. So instead he got to die alone. Interestingly enough, they actually met while she was battling breast cancer, during which her ex-husband bailed for another woman. Humans are semi-intelligent trash bags, and if we want to be happy we should learn to be happy alone.
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Nina 1 year ago
So becoming an orthopedic surgeon took a lot less time? Still seems like quite a time investment to
Comfortably Numb 1 year ago (edited)
Yes, not only because, but because there are many "average" orthopedic surgeries all day every day, fracture repairs, plating, wiring, technique, etc... essentially more surgeries for more surgeons to practice on and build off. Neuro on the other hand, has "average" surgeries but far more spread out in location and when they come in, longer training for instruments and long, tedious surgeries in a small area, with a broad pool of surgeons wanting to specialize and practice. See it, do it, teach it... How every surgeon learns
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Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
'Would you marry me if I was a worm?' 'Of course, baby. Would you marry me if I was temporarily a vegetable and went through existential metamorphosis?' 'Ew. What? No!'
Cooking Panda 1 year ago
When he said he didn't want to be a neurosurgeon i though he'd decided to buy a farm and breed cattles 😂
Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
There are so many stories about people leaving a toxic ex and marrying their best friend, and they end up completely happy. It's sweet.
#3
My friend decided that he was gay the week of the wedding. He's now married to his best man, and it's a big joke among the rest of us... as in, I guess he really was the "**best man"** lol.
Every one of us, except him, knew he was gay since high school 30 years ago. It's so great that he's out now, he's so happy.
HIs fiancé went to his wedding, and he went to hers, so, it all worked out.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Even better that he didn't make the mistake of marrying her anyway. Good that they both are happy 😁
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Mobey Drunk 1 year ago
You can't decide to be gay anymore than you can decide to be straight. It's not a decision. It's just who you are.
#4
Going back around 10 years ago, I called my (now former) mate to ask him what he and the misses wanted for a wedding present as they didn’t have a registry; turns out I called in the middle of my mate calling off the wedding. He showed up to my place soon after to get some sympathy over it, but I ended up kicking him out and cutting him off entirely as soon as I found out why he called it off.
Turns out and he gave her a list of “rules” to follow once they got married. Some of the rules included:
-must drop out of uni
-not allowed to work
-no friends unless he approved of them first
-no contact with any males
-no having her family over
-must have full responsibility over all cooking, cleaning, shopping and laundry
-no social media on her phone, only allowed on her computer so he could monitor it
-must fully immerse in the 1950s housewife lifestyle and mindset.
-must be okay with him engaging in extramarital activities
She dodged a major bullet. Last I heard from him, he got fired for hotboxing in the company car on his work break, and lost his license the same day for the same reason. She’s thriving.
EDIT: just remembered another rule! No having a separate bank account.
minnieslave0 1 year ago
Not so much dodging a bullet as dodging a whole cannon from 2 feet away.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
It’s crazy to me that people with this many “requirements” for their spouse don’t bring it up early on. I guess people wouldn’t date him if the knew. But why waste years of someone else’s life by hiding the fact that you’re never going to work. Bride could have been happy with somebody else in that time.
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Enlee Jones 1 year ago
Gee, and men like that just can't understand why women choose the bear.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
At least he did her the courtesy of informing her that he's a controlling abuser *before* the wedding Yikes.
#5
A woman in my small town called off her wedding because she wanted it outside near some lilac bushes but that year they were late in blooming. She had a meltdown the day before the wedding.
Her fiance had second thoughts after that and broke the engagement.
Linus Nilsson 1 year ago
They had to do lavender, lilacs where late in bloom
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Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
Lucky man. If the lilacs had bloomed earlier he wouldn’t have found out how crazy the bride was in time.
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marianne eliza 1 year ago
If your fiancé cares more about the wedding than the marriage, run. Run fast. Run far.
Miss Cellania 1 year ago
She should have focused on wisteria. Wisteria blooms under stress, and in the South, they "whip" the wisteria vines with chains to force it into bloom for a wedding.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
One of the hazards of trying to hold a wedding outdoors. If the weather doesn't screw up the nature in the background does. Source: I work at a "state nature area" that's popular with weddings.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
*picture shows lavender* 💜😂💜 Utterly ridiculous although I get, but not to That degree how disappointing it is when favourite flowers aren't yet in bloom 💜
Couragetcd 1 year ago
How did the bride not know how high maintenance lilacs are? You have to start bribing them at least 6 months in advance with mineral supplements.
#6
Someome very close to me had to cancel the wedding when her fiancee told her that he wanted to have kids with someone of his own race, and that he did not think that she would not be a good parent to biracial children. I mean, that's his choice, but it's kinda weird that he suddenly realized that she is white six years into the relationship.
KnightOwl 1 year ago
So he waited 6yrs, proposed, planned a wedding then revealed that he's racist? Wow what an AH.
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
Bs excuse, probably got pressured by family to pick someone like them aka someone they could control.
Kurtis Karr 1 year ago
So he thought she would be a good parent, then? The double negative has me confused.
#7
This woman said her ex fiancé’s mom was the reason. The mom wanted to center of attention and did not approve her son’s fiancé and was so stubborn. During the wedding ceremony, the mom told her son “It’s either me or her!” He looked at his fiancé and said to her, “I’m sorry” and took her wedding ring and walked away. My guess is he still gets grounded for coming home 5 mins late after curfew.
Jay Scales 1 year ago
Horrible at the time - but think of how much future hurt & stress she avoided!
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Yeesh. I'm guessing only-child, and the mother is divorced or never married. I've seen some mother's develop unhealthy fixation on their sons. I have a younger colleague who had a mom like this. He ended up moving to the literal other side of the planet to create some distance (he is now in New Zealand)
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
Imagine what the poor sap's life will be like after mom shuffles off this mortal coil!
#8
My grandma’s twin sister kept the wedding date, but switched grooms! Her sweetheart was thought to be lost at war, and he miraculously showed up over a year later, 2 weeks before she was due to marry another guy. My grandma (who was maid of honour) had to stand on the steps of the church and turn away guests of the first groom who hadn’t gotten the word. Many of them didn’t know that the bride had a twin, so they thought my grandma WAS her sister, standing there in a formal dress with a bouquet, claiming that the wedding was cancelled.
They’re 97 now and she still gets MAD at her sister when the topic comes up.
Firefly 1 year ago
Similar to Move Over, Darling with Doris Day and James Garner. And it was based on another movie starring Cary Grant.
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Anna Harding 1 year ago
Similar situation with my grandmother. At birth she was promised to marry someone (my grandfather) but her family moved to the US. At 15 her parents arranged for her to marry a different guy already in the US but my grandfather showed up to claim his bride! She thought it was so romantic that he moved to the US to be with her that she married him. They were married for 68 years - 10 kids!
GettingCereal 1 year ago
Yeah, very much different times. People didn't used to date for long, and then there's pragmatic personality types. Also, she clearly had not actually gotten over his death and there's no way to know she actually fell in love. Not better, but just saying.
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#9
Oh, this one is a doozy. So, a friend of mine was all set to get married—venue booked, flowers arranged, the whole nine yards. A week before the wedding, her fiancé suddenly called it off with the most unexpected explanation. He claimed that he had been receiving "psychic visions" from his future self. According to him, these visions were warning him that on their wedding day, there would be a freak accident involving a runaway llama that would somehow end up destroying the entire reception.
At first, everyone thought it was just cold feet manifesting bizarrely. But he was dead serious. He even went as far as consulting with three different psychics to validate his premonition. To top it all off, he started obsessively researching llama sanctuaries and farms within a hundred-mile radius to back up his claims. My friend was heartbroken but couldn't see herself marrying someone so convinced that their future together would be torn apart by a rogue llama.
In the end, she moved on and found someone new, and as far as I know, there haven’t been any reports of llama-related wedding disasters in our area—yet.
Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
No proof he was wrong though. She gets to be happy with her new love because she wasn't kicked to death by a llama. Hope she's grateful
Kathrin Pukowsky 1 year ago
Yeah, just like my elephant repellant whistle! It's a bit annoying that I have to blow it every twenty minutes, but I haven't seen even a single elephant in decades! People around me may be a bit startled by the shrill noise, but I know for certain that I'm not in for death by elephant.
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Oglethorpe Cadwallader 1 year ago
I'd marry a random woman just to see a llama trash a wedding reception. If I weren't already married, of course.
Phillip Moderow 1 year ago
I read about that. On the day that was supposed to be the wedding, he was driving when a llama appeared in front of his car. He laid on the horn, swerved, and rolled his car three times. The car settled upside down with him still buckled in, and all he could see was that llama peering through the windshield before disappearing back into the forest. True story.
RabidChild 1 year ago
The groom's visions obviously helped us all to avoid the Llamapocalypse. We should be grateful.
Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
Did he even check to see if the Dalai Lama was in town that week?
#10
Not wild, just sad. Couple planned a wedding and I was going to play for the ceremony, then a couple of months later I got a call from the vicar saying she's been diagnosed with cancer and they want to put it forward until only a few weeks time.
She didn't even make it that long. The wedding day was when they held her funeral.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
That wasn't called off. In the eyes of the world, those two were married. I will punch anyone who says otherwise
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
This was very sad but also very sweet. The bride got cancer but her fiance still wanted to marry her.
#11
Turned out the bride was actually super racist and didn't want the groom's black adoptive parents(the people HE thinks of as mom and dad) to be in any photos. she assumed he'd just be cool with this, saying stuff like "it's not your fault who you got adopted by, we can have your REAL parents in the photos". she also caused an endless amount of stress for the maid of honor, who is black, by getting light grey birdesmaid dresses that matched her wedding dress and then being upset that it looked white on her, and not allowing her to dye it a darker grey because then she'll "stand out even more". it's so crazy how long people can hide such their racism while also just assuming that everybody else agrees with it and being shocked when it's seen as a bad thing.
Brenda 1 year ago
That bride deserved to be outed for who she truly was! I hope her fiance is happy now
Danny Dale 1 year ago
This sounds totally fake. If she was super racist why would she want a black MOH or in-laws
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
Maybe the MOH was a friend or adoptive sibling to the groom (I know bride typically chooses a MOH and groom picks best man, but maybe there was an expectation that the MOH had to be that specific girl)? As for in-laws, she probably thought she could convince the groom to cut them off.
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 1 year ago
As a white cis male I have had many, many experiences with people assuming I hold the same bigoted views. When I was young I held my tongue, as I got older I tended to just make it a point never to interact with them. But now that I'm a cranky old fart I don't hesitate to call them out on it. I like myself more now.
Nota Robot 1 year ago
I still am not sure how to deal with true racism except not to interact with the individual anymore. With casua/unthinkingl racism by people who should know better I just gently go against the flow of conversation for instance by providing the counter-argument. With jokes, I just pretend to not get it and ask for an explanation of the punch line. People tend to get awkward and embarrassed pretty quickly.
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Full of Giggles 1 year ago
OP stole this from an AITA post on Reddit. I came across the original a few weeks ago.
Lena Flising 11 months ago
The REAL parents are the ones who are there for you during your childhood, the ones who care for you and raise you.
Maggie Mae 1 year ago
I Have a Friend who is xactly Like that!!Fake to your Face but Behind the Scenes!!!
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
What makes her a friend then? Are you like that too?
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Jennifer Hunter 1 year ago
I read that original post on Reddit! It was posted by the MOH on AITAH. Crazy story.
#12
The groom (and some of his family) was arrested by the FBI for running a child abuse material ring.
The bride had no idea, but, of course called it off immediately.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Thank goodness! Can you imagine if she didn’t find out and they had children? These abusers are the scum of the earth.
#13
Wedding was called off the same day because the bride had just had a baby that night and she did not know she was pregnant.
The groom was not the father.
Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
I had to look this one up. Here's the C/P: Cryptic pregnancy is rare. Studies estimate that 1 in 400 or 500 women are 20 weeks (about 5 months) into pregnancy before realizing it. One in 2,500 women go all the way to delivery before realizing they're having a baby. That's about three times more common than the chance of having triplets.
KnightOwl 1 year ago
I know 4 women who had cryptic pregnancies; 1 didn't have a clue until they went to hospital with 'stomach pains' and was told they were actually in labour. 1 gave birth in the toilet at a house party. 1 didn't know until she was literally sitting in a bathtub in shock holding a tiny newborn.The last one found out at 33 weeks and was stunned as she already had 3 kids and had known very early on with each of her previous pregnancies.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
My aunt has always been a very thin person. She had two sons. Both pregnancies she hardly showed. Her sons are both large, strong men.
BossyHossy1 1 year ago
When I worked nights, we had a Mom bring in her teenage daughter for abdominal pain. While Mom is screaming that the girl's appendix is about to burst, the daughter's water broke. Mom is now crying because her daughter's appendix broke and this bulge appears in the girl's sweatpants. We lay the girl down and cut off the pants to place the baby in her arms and cut the cord. L & D arrive to take care of the new Mom and baby. As they are about to take her downstairs, Grandma asks what we are going to do about the appendix. The male ED nurse tells her that it came out with the baby. Miraculously, nobody laughed out loud and the new Grandma calmed down, and went with her daughter and grandson. It turns out that the new Mom had her appendix removed when she was 11.
linda harbin 1 year ago
Knew a guy years ago who took his wife to the emergency room when she complained of SEVERE abdominal pains. They came home the next day with a baby. She was close to 400 lbs and didn’t realize she was preggers. They sure were surprised but SUPREMELY happy!
ROSESARERED 11 months ago
I worked with a lady who was 36 weeks pregnant when she found out...her placenta was sitting on the front of her 'stomach ', a big, unexpected surprise
Lena Flising 11 months ago
A woman I know didn't show as pregnant until weeks before the due day, both her pregnancies, She's thin and athletic, and barely looked 3 months' pregnant the week before she gave birth the second time. I don't know where she hid the kids; she did go full term, and the kids were normal-sized at birth. The point is, you don't have to be huge to be pregnant.
Pixie T 1 year ago (edited)
1A girl I grew up with didn't know swas pregnant until she was in labour. She still had a period monthly. Even though she'd put some weight and had some pains multiple doctors missed it, even going so far as she may have stomach cancer. She moved from UK to San Francisco for a job, was there less than 3 weeks before being rushed to hospital as she was doubled over in pain. She thought maybe it was due to the potential cancer. Docs told her she was in labour. You can imagine her and her husbands surprise, they had literally nothing needed for a new born. No cot, clothing, diapers, formula ect. They did the rounds via Skype to tell family and friends, everyone was shocked. Relieved too as she didn't have a tumour after all. The kid turned 14 last month
Kat 1 year ago
My sister has 4 kids and every time she pretended like she didn't know until it was too far along to hide. With her 3rd son, she looked me dead in the eyes and told me she wasn't pregnant (with a belly looking like a beach ball) and then gave birth the next day. She never even acknowledged it, just acted like she didn't understand why I was "trippin over it" when i called out her lie
#14
Called mine off after my ex-fiancé ghosted me. I thought it was because I found out about his [substance] addiction. A few months later, his mom posted a pic on FB of him and a girl I'd never seen in my life, and their newborn baby.
Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
If he ghosted her, she's not the one who called it off. Just saying
Christina B 1 year ago (edited)
I called mine off 3 weeks before the date as I came down to see my then fiance pleasuring himself by the stove cooking a meal and then 2 days later peeing in the kitchen sink on top of our daughters lunch box and thermos as he couldn't be bothered to go upstairs to use the bathroom.... He was the NICEST person ever, to this day i agree with that statement....but I just couldn't get over that....
Lena Flising 11 months ago
How few months? Was the Other Woman already pregnant when OP called off the wedding?
#15
It was called off the day before due to homosexuality. This was in 1999. They were both gay and were getting married for appearances. In retrospect, it's amazing how much things have changed in just 25 years. At the time, being gay was a serious persistent risk to one's personal safety, professional opportunities and often personal relationships. At the last minute, she decided that she couldn't go through with it.
Happy ending though, they're both currently living their best lives and America is doing a much improved, if still imperfect, job of not obstructing that. He just celebrated the fourth anniversary of his marriage to a wonderful man.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
When I was working in a country that shan't be named (but it rhymes with Buganda), I had a coworker who was murdered by his brother for being gay. No charges were ever filed against the brother. No investigation was even done, but everybody knew who did it. This was in the early 2000s btw. The family are super religious Christians. I am not a fan of religion
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
Radical or conservative religion is mostly the problem. For 15 yrs, I've been part of a Christian church that is open to LGBTQIA persons and uses some tithes to fight for their rights. Have had gay ministers and gay weddings. We're small but we do our best to show Jesus on the other side of that type of religion.
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We vote purple! And tuna! Heck, we vote for purple tuna!
Cydney Golden 1 year ago
Project 2025 will end same sex marriage if trump is re-elected. Among many other rights.
Maggie Mae 1 year ago
And the Repubs want No Marriages Honored Amongst Same Sex Couples & Abortions are Illeagal and Pedophiles & Rapists on the Suprem Court Justice is Great!! Sick jeffrey epstein followers obviously!!
Lena Flising 11 months ago
I'm sorry that life for them will probably be harder now, with the Orange Menace at the helm...
#16
My dad called off a wedding before he met my mother. He was with this woman that really pressured him into getting married. Basically she just started wedding planning without a proposal. And my dad let it go too far. One night she and her mother were discussing what food was going to be served at the reception. So they asked my dad what he thought. "Roasted chicken or beef?" To which my dad replied, "I don't care which one you're having, because I'm not going to be there." Edit: Apparently she bought her own ring, too.
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
I gave you a downvote for this comment. It was new to me, so your comment is of interest only to yourself as I see it.
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Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
So they FINALLY got around to asking the guy who's supposedly the BtB's PARTNER for input on what's allegedly HIS wedding too? They deserved the response they got.
Koala_Tralala 1 year ago (edited)
She should have married a male mannequin from a wedding gowns' shop. He would never argue with her, he would not have any needs or opinions of his own, and he probably would be more handsome than her even-not-a-fiancee. Oh, and he would already have a tuxedo.
#17
I was going to be a guest at a wedding and found out it was canceled 2 weeks before the date. The bride found out that the groom had gotten a significant discount on the price of the venue and she was insanely angry that anything at her wedding cost less than premium.
Keep in mind, this was her dream venue that she had chosen. She was just mad that her fiancé was “cheap”. Or something.
I was never super close to either of them, but the last I heard they never ended up getting married.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
"We love the place but could you charge us double just to make the lady happy?"
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago (edited)
IKR? I'm quite happy that my DH is all about getting the most for our money, time, etc. (not to worry, he's reasonable about trading off one for the other as the situation calls for). He'd have been thrilled to land a dream venue and get a good deal on it, and I've have been applauding him for it.
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Instead of being glad that they didn't have to pay fortune, she was mad. How shallow and stupid she had to be.
Lena Flising 11 months ago
He dodged a bullet there. Getting a good deal is not to be cheap. Only if EVERYTHING is about how cheap things are, is there a problem. In the book Heart and Soul, by Maeve Binchy, there is a character like that. [spoiler] All he says and does is accompanied by a comment about what a great deal he got. He took a woman out on a date, but got the Early Bird special, as it was so much cheaper than the ordinary evening diner.
#18
Wildest? Bride was caught in bed with her stepbrother the morning of her wedding. I don't know all the details, but it was apparently an ongoing thing between the two of them. Her maid of honor caught them and was so grossed out by it that she called the groom and texted him a picture.
Not only did that wedding NOT happen, but the fallout also ended her moms 20+ year marriage to her stepdad.
Winter 1 year ago
That's so sad - they weren't blood relations, so there was no real reason they couldn't be together, simply the fact that their parents had married the wrong people. If her mother - or his father, had married anyone else, and the two children had met elsewhere and fallen in love, there'd be no problem. Makes you think though, today, with so many sperm donors helping women conceive - how many *actual* sibling pairings do you recon are coming to pass? It was in the news here the other day that one man has donated so much that there are (!!apparently!!) over a thousand children he's sired. No one knows for sure who they are or where they are, or who they're marrying and having their own kids with. The old laws where no one was supposed to have such vital information are starting to change now, but it's far too late for most...
Megan Pippenger 1 year ago
But the mom and stepdad had been married for over 20 years. So it’s likely that they met as kids. When you grow up with stepsiblings, the same biological mental blocks that keep you from viewing your bio family as potential mates also kicks in. Or at least it is supposed to. Given everyone’s response, it doesn’t sound like these stepsiblings first met as even young adults. Even if they first met as young teens, it was in the context of ‘this is gonna be your new sibling’. An initial crush is understandable. But normally that kind of thing is replaced by a sibling relationship. Not a full-on incestuous relationship with someone you grew up with as a sibling.
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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
My ex of ten years, his father called off a wedding cos his bride to be was sleeping with her own biological brother 🤮 it was so full on to find out and confusing, cos like why??????
Megan Pippenger 1 year ago
Okay wait, so if her mom and step-dad had been married for 20+ years, then she grew up with this stepbrother. I grew up with my stepsiblings and all I can think is 🤮🤮🤮
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Not necessarily. My stepbrother grew up on a different continent than my mom, his dad and me. I’ve only seen him a dozen or times in my entire life. He’s also roughly 20 years older than me.
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Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
There's no blood in stepsiblings, so it's not a bad thing. Getting all the way to the wedding day with someone ELSE is the issue here. Yikes.
#19
Canceled the wedding because he was catholic and she was protestant and they decided to have two ceremonies one at her church and one at his but could not agree on which one would be first.
Probably for the best if they couldn't even compromise on the wedding I hate to think the challenges they would have faced once kids were brought into the mix.
Brenda 1 year ago
This is why my late hubby and I agreed to have a non-denominational ceremony. We also agreed to let our kids make their own decisions regarding religion
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Both good for you, and also I'm sorry for your loss. Sounds like you guys had a strong commitment to each other
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
And if they'd used the missionary position on their wedding night, they would have argued about which faith the missionary was from.
Eileen Heath 7 months ago
The Orange and The Green! Great song by The Irish Rovers - here's a bit from it My father was an Ulster man, proud Protestant was he. My mother was a Catholic girl, from county Cork was she. They were married in two churches, lived happily enough, Until the day that I was born and things got rather tough.
Jan Moore 1 year ago
Before my husband and I got married, I asked my Lutheran Minister if my husband not being Lutheran would be a problem. He told me it didn't make a difference to "him" but maybe to me later. We got married at our church almost 42 years ago. My husband went to a new member's class and he has been an elder two different times.
#20
My friend’s fiance was finally meeting her extended family for the first time. Shortly after, he broke it off because she had a first cousin with down syndrome and didn’t want to taint his genetic pool. Absolutely ridiculous.
Brittania Kelli 1 year ago
Only 1% of all cases of Down' s Syndrome have a hereditary component. So she dodged a bullet, a ignorant A-hole shaped bullet.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
*bats the bullet under the sofa*
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Ephemera Image 1 year ago
Did he check his own gene pool? I'm pretty sure there were morons in it.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Did he have blonde hair and blue eyes by any chance? She definitely dodged a bullet there.
#21
A bird took a little s**t on the brides dress, she went mental and canceled the whole thing off.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
"Quick, get some tissue paper." "Don't be silly, he'll be miles away by now!" Can't do that old gag in a country that only has bidets.
Caroline Overill 1 year ago
This reminds me of something that happened to me. I have what I call my little voice that gives me good advice. Don’t worry. I’m not crazy. I’m not hearing voices telling me to hurt people or anything. It’s good honestly. Any way, I needed to buy some salad cream. I went to the town and took care of some bank business and then there was a smaller version of one of our supermarkets just round the corner to get the salad cream. Little voice said not to go there. Get in the car and go to the little shop near home. No, I said to myself. That’s just silly. I’m going to this shop near me now. Really , said little voice, go to the other one. I’m obstinate. I went to my first choice, got my salad cream and on the way back to my car a bird pooped on my head. If only I had listened!
#22
The bride ran away with the groom's father.
My cousin was in the bridal party. She hosted the bridal shower and spent a fortune on it, and the very expensive bridesmaid dress the bride demanded, only for the bride to elope with her future father in law the night before. My cousin was spitting feathers.
Couragetcd 1 year ago
All holidays would be very awkward if family gatherings are involved.
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Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
I hadn't heard spitting feathers before, it's very... evocative.
Load More Replies... Just another idiot 1 year ago
I want to know everything! How long were they seeing each other before they ran off together? Did they live happily ever after? Did they move back into the same area? Could I please get contact info for the bride or the father-in-law?
#23
A friend of my mother's canceled her wedding days before the event. The friend had gone to church to pray for a successful marriage. As she was praying, a cloud covered the sun, making the church go a little dim. She took this as a sign from God that the marriage would be a mistake and canceled.
Years later, when the friend told me this story she said she made the right choice because the man was a gambling addict and alcoholic and he only got worse. She said she thought he was fun and did not see that his addictions were actual problems.
Ash 1 year ago
This is one of those situations where it's really good she listened to her intuition. Part of her loved this man, but part of her knew this was a terrible idea, and when she was praying, she saw an "omen" that made her take her doubts seriously, and she ditched him. It was less about the sign itself than her personal interpretation of it based on a gut feeling she may have not even known she had.
Cooter McCoughlin 1 year ago
Maybe her breaking off the engagement is what led to his alcoholism
Kat 1 year ago
I think maybe she knew she was making a mistake and made up this excuse to make herself feel like she a had a "legit" reason to call it off
Ivy at Eve 1 year ago
Yes, I think she subconsciously knew it wasn't going to work out and hence saw "the sign"...
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#24
My grandma had to call off her wedding because her mother did not like my grandfather because he was "too good looking for a man and a lady magnet wherever he walked in" (he was, in fact, a very handsome man with blond hair, blue eyes and a marine) so she hid both of their passports. It got to the point where the police had to get involved, because not only my grandma couldn't marry but my grandfather ( her husband to be) couldn't leave the port without his documents. They got married a year later but it was a fierce. Lived together for 55 years.
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
I read this to mean that grandma had a fierce struggle with her mother before she finally got to marry her husband.
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago
I'm still getting over him having blond hair, blue eyes and a marine. What happened to the marine?!
Emie N. 1 year ago
Hair and eye color does not determine whether someone is attractive or not. You can have blonde hair and blue eyes and be plain looking or even "ugly" looking.
Lena Flising 11 months ago
Yup. Blond hair and blue eyes are pretty normal here in Sweden. We have ugly people here as well.
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Childhood best friend cancelled her wedding due to mercury being in retrograde on the planned date. Said she couldn’t have that kind of negativity in her life.
Hugh Crawford 1 year ago
I don't particularly follow astrology, but isn't that stuff sort of scheduled?
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Next time in 2024 is August 5 to August 27, then November 25 to December 15. Me thinks the lady "believes" but knows nothing about, like other cults.
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
It means she changed her mind.
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#26
Ready? They turned out to be half-siblings from a co-ed/professor affair, at her university, The affair was found out after a 23 and Me DNA test which was taken just for fun. 2 weeks before the wedding.
The university was 1200 miles from their small town, and what are the odds that of 335 million people in the US, she would meet and fall in love with her half brother??
This happened to an extended family member.
Short Version:
A couple had dated for 2 years in high school and graduated in 1983. She went away to college, while he stayed back in the small town working in the family business.
They had maintained a relationship, and during the summer before her senior year she found that she was pregnant. Only problem is was it wasn't the boyfriends baby. She had had a fling with her professor and got pregnant from him. (1986)
She told no one, and stayed at college 1200 miles from home for the entire senior year including the summer before her senior year, and after her senior year saying she was working on degree related things.
Shortly before graduation she gave birth and put the baby up for adoption. Apparently the baby boy was adopted in the university town where she gave birth.
After graduation, she came back home to the small town and she and her high school sweetheart got married and lived happily ever after. They had a daughter in 1988.
Their daughter graduated from high school and went away to the same university as her mother, met a guy at school, who was a few years older, and eventually they became engaged.
As the wedding date neared, and because he was adopted, they thought it would be a good idea to take a genetic test to rule out any gene issues- and also did a 23 and me test.
They planned a wedding and as the date approached they went through all the steps including planning and paying for various things, the venue, caterer, etc.
HIS genetic test came back with a direct match with the girl's mother and a half-sibling match for his girlfriend, which puzzled everyone, since he was from across the country. And 23 and me's database revealed the name of another half sibling who had the last name of the professor. (his other son with his wife).
The mom had to reveal the truth, that she had a 6 week relationship with a married professor, and found out later that she was pregnant. She had a baby that she told no one about.
The family found out 2 weeks before the wedding. Eventually they reconciled, but it did put a huge strain on the marriage. The daughter and her fiance were devastated, and in all the turmoil the family secret had to be revealed.
Brittania Kelli 1 year ago
It's called Genetic Sexual Attraction and is pretty common when siblings and half siblings are raised apart then meet in adulthood.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Just going to point out this is a hypothesis, not fact.
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Suddenly I'm very glad Audi and I are both fixed!
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Why is the "short" version so much longer than the first version?
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
HAHA, my half brother's father lived the last 30 years at a teaching clinic in a small town in the rainforest. Every few years we'd hear about another child. He's now 85, and moved to Portugal. He brought one of his students from the clinic with him, and their newborn son. The student is 23. We would always joke that one day he'd have to leave town, because there's now a 50/50 chance than any girl he's dating is actually his daughter or granddaughter.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Also, no he's not rich by any standard. He's just a very handsome and charming guy. He's also very bad at not cheating.
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A friend of a friend was engaged but they decided to end it when a fortune teller told her the couple had been siblings in a previous life. The weird part is it seems likely they don’t believe that but felt it sounded more reasonable than their real reasons.
Lene 1 year ago
Ppl who believe in past lives often also believe that the ppl/spirits that are your family now were also family in the previous lives. But the roles of the family changes from life to life. So to make an example: my bf and I could be father and daughter in one past life and one of our kids could have been the mother. In anothe past life I could have been the father and my bf could have been the youngest kid....
#28
My former close friend was engaged to a guy. She became extremely controlling and obsessive, getting angry because he wasn't calling her while on deployment (he wasn't allowed for security reasons) and accusing him of cheating. He broke up with her. She then harassed him for about two years until he got married to someone else and moved out of the area. We aren't close friends anymore because I sided with him after she threw an iron at him, which was his breaking point. They were fighting about inviting some of his fellow soldiers.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
I think current statistics (in the UK at least), is that a third of those who experience domestic abuse are men. Let’s normalise the fact that women can be abusive too.
Emie N. 1 year ago
We know. And we do try to normalize it. Feminists are especially vocal about the fact that women can be abusers as well.
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#29
I heard of someone who called off his wedding because of a fortune cookie. No joke. Before the wedding, he went out for Chinese food. After dinner, He cracked open a fortune cookie that read, "A hasty marriage brings regret."
He started overanalyzing everything about his relationship and freaking out about getting married too quickly. By the end of the week, he was convinced the cookie was a sign and called off the wedding.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
When my husband and I were in the courtship stage, we'd reached the point where we pretty much knew we were going to be permanent. One day, we went to a Chinese restaurant very near the place a wedding would be most likely to occur, and his fortune was unusually specific - "You will marry your present lover and be happy." A year and a day later, there we were. :)
Sierra Tide 1 year ago
A hasty marriage brings regret...in bed. Probably a good thing he called it off 😜
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago (edited)
I once got a fortune cookie that said "You are laughing now, wait until you get home". I drove to the airport, got on a flight to Egypt, and haven't been home since. NOTE: everything in my story is true, except the order of events.
Ivy at Eve 1 year ago
Imagine the previous couple getting one tat said something about having found their other half...
#30
My great grandfather was on his way to marry my great grandmother, in a rowboat crossing a lake. He somehow fell overboard and they had to postpone the wedding because he drenched his only suit. His brothers told his fiancée he tried to drown himself rather than marry her (all in good fun).
Aidan Pite 1 year ago
Once when I was in the hospital the day after having dinner with my GF's brother, I joked that she should subtly imply that his cooking had sent me there by conveniently omitting the whole appendicitis thing (all in good fun).
#31
This wasn't me personally, but I still think it's one hell of a story. So a couple of years ago I was doing a placement at a law firm. There was another girl there who was also doing her placement, but she was also rather ‘uppity’; 23 years old, middle class, and was already engaged to her fiancé, Mark. From what I had heard, Mark was basically a regular guy and a lot less posh than this girl. So one day, the girl was constantly taking breaks to go and answer personal phone calls, and eventually we asked her why she kept leaving. She told us that her fiancé had accused her of cheating and they had been arguing about it all night. She then began to explain that the reason he thought this was because she had this very firm rule that he wasn't allowed to come over to her place unless he let her know beforehand (don't ask me why they weren't living together). Eventually Mark became tired of this, and thought that she was cheating on him. The girl told us that the reason she didn't want Mark to come over without giving her notice, was because she wore crocs in her house. Yep, you read that right – those brightly coloured foam shoes with holes in them. She didn't think that they were ‘proper’ and didn't want her fiancé to see her wearing them. She went on to explain that whenever he came over, she'd hide them at the back of her closet so that he wouldn't see them. Long story short, they argued for a couple of days, and she did eventually tell him that the crocs were the reason why he had to give notice before coming over (apparently she even had her own mother confirm this story to him). Nonetheless he broke of the engagement as he – quite understandably – thought it was a ridiculous excuse. Unfortunately my placement ended before I ever found out if they reconvened. So if you're reading this: the key to a happy marriage is being comfortable enough .
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Gee, if your mom tells your bf you're not cheating on him, he's just got to believe that.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Yeah, if you're still feeling a need to put on the date-level front with someone and can't relax and be comfortable with them, you're not ready to marry them yet.
René Sauer 1 year ago
To be honest, I would like to get some notice, too, when people are planning to come over. I hate surprise visits.
Couragetcd 1 year ago (edited)
Once you're married to someone, you are both going to see and hear and smell way worse things than ugly inside shoes.
#32
A Mormon I knew canceled his wedding the night before. Both of their families had flown in and spent loads of money for this destination wedding. She had gotten on birth control shortly before their wedding and they got in a big argument with him claiming that she was a completely different person on birth control and he didn't want to marry her. They called the wedding off. He told me later that they actually were still good friends and got along great after all the stress of wedding planning. He often thought about pursuing a relationship again but their families had grown so resentful after the failed wedding that it just wasn't worth it.
Saphyre Fyre 1 year ago
Actually, I don't see why being Mormon was an issue here, and did you read the story, or get stuck on that?? The issue was her mood/personality changed.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
What did the groom being a Mormon have to do with anything that happened?
Tiffany Sauter 1 year ago
Birth control pills can do that to some women. I couldn't take them because I became a rageaholic for a week each month when I was on them, but not when I wasn't on them strangely.
Iseabail Munro 1 year ago
Progesterone made me angry and miserable constantly, didn't matter if it was implant or pill etc.
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AnkleByter 1 year ago
Why on earth would taking control of your own reproductive health be a big red flag? Maybe she (or they) didn't want kids right away and were taking the RESPONSIBLE steps towards achieving that goal. You do know that birth control pills are used proactively to prevent conception during intercourse, right? You are aware of how and why they are used?
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My cousin had just married a Haitian man, knowing that her father was very racist. The groom suffered a schizophrenic attack the day after the wedding night. That's when we discovered that you could annul a marriage if it was less than a week old (French law). A friend's cousin, aged 30, got married. She was a virgin on the wedding night, panicked, ran off in the middle of the night and ended up in a convent, which she has never left since.
minnieslave0 1 year ago
An annulment isn't divorce though - it's everyone, including the Church agreeing that this didn't happen. One very good reason for annulling a marriage is non consummation.
minnieslave0 1 year ago
Posted too soon - or fraud. If one of the partners has hidden something pretty major, like a serious condition, then annulment might be considered. And anyway, the op didn't say it was a Catholic wedding, it might have only been a civil wedding, in which case, the Church doesn't have a say.
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Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
That doesn't track. You can't become a nun when you're already married and there's no divorce in Catholicism.
#34
My best friend called off her wedding 2 summers ago because she found out her fiancé soon to be husband was having an affair with his half sister. (Same mom different dads) the heart ache that has caused her. It’s been 2 years and she’s still f****d up about it 🥺.
#35
A friend of a friend called off her wedding because her stomach was upset. This happened the morning of, after a ton of guests from out of town traveled to our city to come to the wedding.
When asked by a groomsman if maybe she could talk some Imodium and see how she is before calling it off, the groom acted super offended at the suggestion.
This guy absolutely babies this woman. No one in the friend group liked her that much in the first place, and this really put the nail in the coffin.
JB 1 year ago (edited)
She had diarrhea. Dunno about you but the idea of standing in front of a bunch of people and uncontrollably sh1tting yourself doesn’t sound like something I would choose to do either. This idiot also doesn’t comprehend that Imodium takes time to work and doesn’t always work that well, so she could still potentially have an incident. Can’t blame her at all for saying no to that.
Load More Replies... Christina B 1 year ago (edited)
I know it's not going to be the 'popular' opinion but they both kinda sound like AH's here?
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
If the groom took exception to her taking Imodium I really understand why she called it off. Not only was there a risk of having an attack at the altar, but his reaction was not that of a loving husband (to be).
#36
A coworker once said his sister called off her wedding because she finally got a look at the would-be groom's toes. And apparently, they're pretty nasty looking. So, she bounced.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Lucky for him. If she's that superficial now, what's she going to be like if the kids aren't IG-supermodel photo-perfect or someone in the family suffers a disfiguring accident?
weatherwitch 1 year ago
Fair enough, manky toes are pretty icky especially if they're in your bed 🤢🤣
Steve Hall 1 year ago
That might be for the best because if you don't take care of your feet, they will fall off.
#37
They didn't call it off, but my parents wedding was almost rescheduled because they found out the morning of that the priest who was supposed to marry them had run off the night before with a nun lol. Neither of them were practicing catholics, though both were baptized, and their ceremony was to be held in a church. They had a hell of a time finding a replacement priest with several hours notice who was also willing to marry two lapsed catholics, and the church they were using wouldn't allow the wedding to be conducted by anyone but a priest.
Brenda 1 year ago
Catholic church only allows Catholic priests to perform weddings, baptisms, funerals, etc. And each priest can choose to perform a wedding or not, make the couple attend marriage classes, have them take CCD/communion/confirmation to "renew" their commitment, etc. It's more rare these days. Although they can't marry divorced couples, a lot of younger priests WILL do vow renewals for them.
Mongo Marcia 1 year ago
If you have $$ and connections divorced people can get married in the church. I was the matron of honor. The groom was divorced 3 times. The bride's uncle was a priest in another state. Her dad was the deacon at the church in which they married.
Load More Replies... Brian Hawley 1 year ago
A very smart friend of mine (chairman of the debating team and a confirmed atheist) married a catholic girl. The priest gave them the usual series of talks. The MIL had to call him and ask him not to argue with the priest. The old guy was starting to doubt his faith .
Just another idiot 1 year ago
To be fair, Catholic Church=Catholic rules. They're not know for being flexible.
dremetrius 1 year ago
Man, if your priest just ran off with a nun, that's not the day to come to *me* with "oh, well, you can't get married here without a priest."
Cyndielouwhoo 1 year ago
I went to school with a girl whose parents did that. They had two daughters and were very happy for years, so I guess that was the right choice.
#38
My ex lied to me about saving up for our wedding (and other things) like we had planned. And then it also came out that the money I’d been giving her for bills each month was actually more than the bills were actually costing. But none of it had been used to pay any of our bills and she’d been spending it all on s**t like expensive clothing and comic books. She then got her family to pay off all the debts (including the money she owed me) and also got them to replenish her savings account to match the amount I’d saved. Then she broke up with me and spent the money on plane tickets to have a holiday instead of giving it back to her family. I should have broken up with her (and much sooner) but tbh I was so emotionally paralysed by it I couldn’t even take care of myself.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
If you are going to get married and give money to your future partner, I know you are supposed to trust them, but get receipts from them on what they are spending it on. If they refuse to come up with the receipts or make excuses why they don have them, after two or three excuses this should be a flag to the other partner.
Kitty 🥀 1 year ago
Someone in a healthy relationship shouldn’t have to ask for receipts, either. That’s absurd.
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#39
I had a regular at one of the bars I worked that claimed she called off her wedding a week before because, and this is a quote “he ripped an extremely smelly fart while we were in bed. Ruined the whole thing for me”
Now she was also a middle aged alcoholic who wasn’t living her best life, so I take it with a grain of salt, but then again if there ever was a type to call off a whole wedding last minute over something that minor and stupid it’d be that type I guess.
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
After reading the post about the farting husband, I'm not sure she was wrong...🤣
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
I know right. I was traumatized just by reading it. I can't imagine being there in the middle of that biohazard 😷
Load More Replies... Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Bodily functions happen, Princess. I'm sure he wouldn't exactly be delighted by you having a surprise start to a period or a pad/tampon failure/overflow. Doesn't say much for her chances at "for better or for worse, in sickness and in health" if something that transient and trivial has her noping out.
#40
The man got mauled by a bear during his bachelor party. .
Laura Mitchell 1 year ago
I'll bet the answer to the question is, "Yes, alcohol was involved."
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#41
I worked in catering and the craziest story we ever had was this: The bride and groom were getting married on a weekday which was unusual enough (most of our weddings were Fri-Sun) and they were fairly young but seemed normal and enthusiastic during the planning. On the day of the wedding we let their vendors set up early since no other events were taking place. We didn’t know anything was going wrong until the wedding photographer took away one of the place settings off the sweetheart table and took pictures of just one by itself. Then he started telling the staff that the groom had cancelled. The ceremony in the garden didn’t happen obviously but the bride and her side still showed up for the reception it was a much smaller headcount than expected. Parking lot security told us that the groom showed up at the end of the night and almost got pummeled by her family and then they made out in her car. They showed up weeks later totally together and wanted to see if anyone knew who sent their florist away. The florist was told by someone (our staff or that bigmouth photographer) that the wedding was cancelled so they just drove off without delivering the flowers. The couple was suing them for not providing the flowers. I think they had to go to a courthouse to actually get married but they acted like this was all very normal behavior.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Don't worry. He sounds like the kind of guy who's going to pull out before the main event
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#42
One of my friends called off her wedding because she found out her fiancé was leading a double life as a professional clown. She had absolutely no idea until she saw him in full clown gear at a kid's birthday party when she was there for her cousin's child. The shock was so intense that she couldn't go through with the wedding! Now, she's happily married to someone else, and she always laughs about how she dodged a pie in the face!
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I guess her new husband had big shoes to fill....I'll get my coat.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
The fact that he hid it from her. Seems like something you’d mention.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
I'm a strictly amateur clown, and, believe me, it's no secret to anyone.
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
God i hate clowns. As long as i didn't have to see him in costume i would be OK with it. The man was working not doing something nefarious.
Mike F 1 year ago
Turns out she's the clown. I can remember my paternal grandfather making balloon animals for my brother and me when we were little. Imagine the "intense shock" of her bf making little kids happy by being a clown and entertaining them and being upset about it. Sounds like he's the lucky one in that scenario. In before "ewww creepy clowns".
Kallen Kneeland 1 year ago
I dunno, Mike F, seems to me if one has a side job (especially one they love & are proud of) they'd mention it to spouse-to-be before the wedding. If not, why not? Doesn't matter if it was a clown or an EMS job, hiding it from her is dishonest. Who wants to start a marriage with a liar?
Load More Replies... #43
I know of not ONE but TWO weddings that were called off because the groom was lying about everything to the bride and she found out. In one case, he was pretending to be in grad school full-time while actually just doing nothing and in the other, he’d been laid off for months but hadn’t told her and was just pretending to go to work.
Dragon mama 1 year ago
I appreciate these stories because my ex did something similar and of course blamed everything on me so it’s nice to know I wasn't alone. Wish I had called off the wedding lol
#44
Someone said they couldn't get married because their partner was allergic to their cat.
Zena 1 year ago
OK, but had the partner never been around the cat the entire time of their relationship? Seems like something that could have been figured out before the engagement.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Sounds like a trick to make the partner get rid of the cat....
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The best reason to get rid of the spare soft can-opener!
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
Beech bye! I'd throw myself on a grenade and bite a shark for my Purrdita Chickeelooo. Humans not so much
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James Celley 1 year ago
I have a relative who absolutely cannot be around cats and antihistamines don't work for the level of allergie they have
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
They’ve had a relationship for long enough to be engaged and there was no mention of the cat?
Load More Replies... Papa 1 year ago
I imagine this won't be a popular answer, but the person with the allergy dodged a bullet. If the other one chose the cat over the person they said they were committed to spending their life with, over something completely beyond his or her control, it never would have worked anyway.
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
And I say the person with the cat dodged the bullet, pets are family too.
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#45
One friend's fiancé confessed he was only marrying her for a green card. Another friend canceled because she found out her partner had a secret gambling addiction.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I knew a guy who married a girl who needed a green card and he couldn't understand it when she got it and dumped him.
Sandy Kavanaugh 1 year ago
This still happens a lot. Especially in the Phillipines.
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Would be groom fell in love with future mother in law.
#47
Brides mom was stabbed.
Rali Meyer 1 year ago
she wanted to help kill above bear (#41). I know, my background check s ucks, but so does the original story. I AM sarcastic, I know.
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#48
My friend's fiancée left him because her friend said they were not a good match for each other's horoscopes.
René Sauer 1 year ago
OPs friend dodged a bullet. Everyone who is taking stuff like astrology, star signs, Aura, Energy vibes, etc. serious has some nuts loose.
#49
Not super wild but it just sounds like the cheapest movie...my parent’s neighbours, living in the flat above my parents on the top floor, were about to get married when the lady ran away with the handyman who was repairing the roof... Though it was sad for him it’s somehow a funny story that gets told every now and then, regularly that is. The guy found a new girlfriend some time later and is still with her. He moved to another flat though.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
These stories were supposed to be funny? There's a lot that don't belong here then.
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Dreaming Spirit 1 year ago
I bought a flat in new apartment blocks, it had a long crack in the middle of the ceiling. We had a building inspector look at it, he asserted it's normal (building settling, or something), the development company sent some repair guys to patch it under warranty. Another new building across the street had some issues with roofing as well (water was leaking and ruining ceiling on top floor flats). It happens.
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Its been a whille since I heard this so I hope I get the details right. Groom found out the bride to be was cheating on him, I think it was with the best man. He went through with the wedding anyway and when it was time to do his speech he asked everyone to look for something under seats. It was a picture of the bride and best man together coming out of a hotel. He then proceeded to tell her he knew she was cheating and was divorcing her lol.
Diolla 1 year ago
I believe you. I mean, it would be very stupid to get married and then divorce immediately. Much easier to just say NO during the ceremony.
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Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Why not just tell her to pound sand before the ceremony. Gotta be cheaper
René Sauer 1 year ago
Depends On who paid for it: If her/her family paid for the majority of it I would say it´s a good last F*** you to her.
Load More Replies... Aussiegirl 1 year ago
I saw something similar a while ago, a couple got married then the groom played a video of his new wife in bed with another guy
In the stories of relationships, sometimes deep-seated issues only come to light at critical junctures like weddings or family gatherings. As challenging as these moments can be, they often reveal crucial truths about human behavior and relationships. Just as a dad discovered his neighbor's deep-seated prejudices when his daughter came out, societal pressures can bring underlying tensions to the fore.
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#51
I know someone who broke up with her boyfriend because he put an expensive filet mignon on a george foreman grill.
#52
This was years ago but a woman I went to college with just disappeared the day of the wedding. She told no one and ran away. Everybody was at the church waiting on her and she never showed up. Come to find out she had been planning this the whole time. We later found out she had ran off to Seattle and worked for Guild Wars as a content writer. She has a website called Lear's Fool or at least she use to. I felt bad for the guy but anybody who knew her knows she is a flake of the first order.
#53
My wife's friend broke up with her husband after falling for a Belarusian Hockey player that plays in the FPHL. They got engaged on what was supposed to be her Honey Moon and got married three weeks later. The wedding was beautiful for one that was thrown together in less than three weeks.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
Federal Prospects Hockey League. "'FPHL' redirects here. For female-pattern hair loss, see Pattern hair loss..." - Wikipedia
Diolla 1 year ago
Thank you. I'm having a hard time keeping up with all the American abbreviations.
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One of Dad's friends bought a flatbed trailer from him. His fiancee apparently came unglued at the prospect of him spending so much money (a few thousand at best, and he's a hobby farmer so it would get put to use) so that put the kabosh on the engagement.
Sue User 1 year ago
Was she upset with him buying something or because he was making major finanial decisions without letting her know?
EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
If you are not married your finances are still your own. Your partner can be mad but it's not their money.
Load More Replies... Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
This sounds like a totally reasonable reason to cancel a wedding. At that point they are assuming finances will be joined and he makes a major purchase without consulting her. I've been married 25 years and we still check in with each other on purchases over a couple hundred. It doesn't really matter if he had a use for it. A few thousand is a lot of money.
#55
Keys player in our band was going to have his second wedding. It was themed as a rock festival, 6 bands, and we were supposed to play. We rehearsed for a hour-long set. The wedding was called off due to the rock and roll lifestyle - the groom got himself a pancreatitis.
3 Otters 🦦 1 year ago
Páncreas attack from too much fat and sugar. Lots of fast food apparently caught up with him. Note: other factors involved with pancreatitis as well. Feel free to check it out.
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Bride's work meant she was only at home on a Sunday. Groom was planning the whole thing with the help of the bride's twin and they got close and fell in love. The groom also turned gay.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
From Reddit: the twin was indeed male.
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My SIL called off the wedding because “he’s getting old and wrinkled and flabby. But it’s ok because I do yoga now”.
#58
My boyfriend got paid by his family to dump his (ex) fiancé. I think that’s pretty wild. Iirc she kinda bullied him into proposing and his family hated her so much that they decided to pay him to leave her, which he was kinda wanting to do anyways.
Gwyn 1 year ago (edited)
Why would he do that when he could call it off unilaterally and keep all the money for himself? Don't skip over the context of him being bullied into proposing and wanting to get out of it anyway.
Load More Replies... Danny Dale 1 year ago (edited)
She’s better off without him and his family. Would have been horrible
#59
My friend’s fiance wanted to pay for everything on their wedding day—but my friend’s mom didnt like the idea. She wanted to pay for the other half since it’s her daughter’s wedding. Things got messy and they called off the wedding. Narcissist moms, lol.
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Alexandra 1 year ago
What strikes me is that these people who are set to become partners in life apparently don't know each other that well. My husband's grandmother always said that it takes a shared 2-week holiday during which you only have rain to get to know each other really well.
Jac Carr 1 year ago
Absolutely agree. Never marry someone you haven't lived with, even if that's just a 2 week holiday
Load More Replies... Deborah B 1 year ago
My cousin's wedding almost got cancelled. The night before the wedding, they stayed at her parent's house, where the wedding would take place (separate rooms). Morning of the wedding, the groom could not find his trousers. He was storming around in his undershorts, loudly accusing the brothers of the bride, and threatening not to go through with the wedding. The bride was in tears, the brothers were laughing themselves sick, and the bride's parents were unmoved by the dramatics, and not offering any suggestions that might encourage the wedding to occur. The bride's elder sister intervened by driving into town, and buying a pair of dress trousers for the groom. The wedding went ahead, but the general attitude was an unsympathetic "He should have had the gumption to go and buy his own trousers."
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Not my story, and I don't know if it's true. I was friends with a wedding photographer who told me he was at a wedding where the couple wrote their own vows. The bride's vows were all about how happy she was that the groom is rich, how she would manage his finances, and how she would spend his money. The groom called off the wedding right there. I kind of think he was exaggerating what really happened though. Or he just made it up altogether
Alexandra 1 year ago
What strikes me is that these people who are set to become partners in life apparently don't know each other that well. My husband's grandmother always said that it takes a shared 2-week holiday during which you only have rain to get to know each other really well.
Jac Carr 1 year ago
Absolutely agree. Never marry someone you haven't lived with, even if that's just a 2 week holiday
Load More Replies... Deborah B 1 year ago
My cousin's wedding almost got cancelled. The night before the wedding, they stayed at her parent's house, where the wedding would take place (separate rooms). Morning of the wedding, the groom could not find his trousers. He was storming around in his undershorts, loudly accusing the brothers of the bride, and threatening not to go through with the wedding. The bride was in tears, the brothers were laughing themselves sick, and the bride's parents were unmoved by the dramatics, and not offering any suggestions that might encourage the wedding to occur. The bride's elder sister intervened by driving into town, and buying a pair of dress trousers for the groom. The wedding went ahead, but the general attitude was an unsympathetic "He should have had the gumption to go and buy his own trousers."
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Not my story, and I don't know if it's true. I was friends with a wedding photographer who told me he was at a wedding where the couple wrote their own vows. The bride's vows were all about how happy she was that the groom is rich, how she would manage his finances, and how she would spend his money. The groom called off the wedding right there. I kind of think he was exaggerating what really happened though. Or he just made it up altogether
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